OTL: Twitter Olympics

The broadcasting of this years Olympics has been nothing short of disasterous. NBC is not reporting the Olympic games in real time and part of the reason is to protect the interest of advertisors and sponsors. The term #NBCFAIL has even begun trending on Twitter. Social media is riddled with the mistakes and blunders made by the company in the past weeks. There are now discussions to place restrictions placed on Olympian’s tweets – to avoid the “cat getting out of the bag” before the news is broadcasted.

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